ARK Invest partners with Securitize to tokenize ARK Venture Fund
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ARK Invest has partnered with Securitize to tokenize ARKVX fund interests and plans to launch them first on Ethereum.
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ARK Tokenizing a venture fund in partnership with Securitize, holding equity in companies including OpenAI and Anthropic
PANews September 24 news, according to a CoinDesk report, Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest has partnered with Securitize to tokenize its ARK Venture Fund（ARKVX). The fund’s portfolio includes private technology companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe, and Databricks. Securitize will provide on-chain issuance and investor services for the tokenization,ARKVX will launch first on Ethereum, with possible expansion to other blockchains in the future. The tokenization does not mean that the shares of the relevant portfolio companies themselves will be put on-chain or made freely tradable; investors will receive a blockchain-based representation of fund interests. Securitize also plans to provide a daily net asset value and support trading of fund interests on blockchain markets.
ARK Invest has partnered with Securitize to tokenize ARK Venture Fund（ARKVX).
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ARKVX’s portfolio includes private technology companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe, and Databricks.
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Securitize will provide on-chain issuance and investor services.
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ARKVX will launch first on Ethereum, with possible expansion to other blockchains in the future.
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The tokenized asset is a blockchain-based representation of fund interests, not the shares of the relevant portfolio companies themselves.
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Securitize plans to provide a daily net asset value and support trading of fund interests on blockchain markets.
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This amounts to turning the interests in the ARKVX fund into a digital representation on the blockchain. Holders receive fund interests, not direct ownership of or freely tradable shares in companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic.
Why it matters to readers
The partnership brings fund interests with investments in multiple private technology companies onto the blockchain and proposes daily net asset value disclosures and on-chain trading, potentially drawing greater investor attention to fund tokenization as a structure.
Beginners should first distinguish between a “fund interest token” and “shares in a portfolio company”: buying the former does not mean directly owning shares in companies such as OpenAI. Specific details on issuance, trading, and participation requirements also remain pending.
Risks and unknowns
The material was relayed by PANews from a CoinDesk report and does not include a direct announcement from ARK Invest or Securitize.
The source text does not specify a specific launch date.
The source text does not specify investor eligibility, regulatory arrangements, fees, or redemption rules.
Daily net asset value and trading on blockchain markets remain planned features; whether and when they will actually be offered is unclear.
Whether the offering will expand to other blockchains in the future has not been determined.
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Tokenization
The process of converting a physical asset into digital form or a token to represent its value and ownership.
